A Request Suggested Curriculm: Husbanding Track Sarcastic Curriculm: Spiritual Leadership: Men Only A well known Baptist seminary made quite a stink when it began offering an undergrad degree in homemaking. This decisions, from this particular seminary, made them a laughing stock for many. A seminary teaching women homemaking skills…really? While I think it’s silly and unnecessary – I do not have a major issue with a seminary doing this. I do, however, have a lot of questions for the school. The school states that they are offering this degree because they are “filling a need.” Yes, family is not revered or honored in our culture as it once was. There is truth there. My question for the school is this: If this degree (for women only) is intended to help the status of the family in America today…why do they not have a similar program for the men? Women are not the reason that families are in such a horrible state. Problems are not one sided. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that if men would be men - more specifically if Christian men would be Christian men, be the spiritual leader of the family - there would be a distinction in Christian families. If you think a woman needs a homemaking degree to be a good wife….where do men learn to be a good husband? Men learn as much about husbanding from Greek, Hebrew, Preaching, and Theology classes as women learn homemaking from those self same classes. My problem is not so much with the degree as it is with the theology and motives that are pushing this idea at this particular seminary. My main issue with their program: I don't have a problem with teaching "homemaking" to women who want to learn. Teach them to cook and keep house - they can invite the poor woman Hebrew prof over who doesn't have time to cook because she's with her students. Heaven's knows I would love that when I become a prof. My problem is that this type of program coming from this particular school is like a slap in the face. If it were not for their overall stance on women I would have absolutely no problem with offering a "homemaking" undergrad degree. Heaven's - everyone knows I would never sign up for it. My Proposal: So if you are seriously concerned about the status of the family and how it's going to hurt your precious denomination...offer a degree is Husbandhood. Here is a serious proposal for such a degree.... Husbanding Track And since I am a sarcastic person by nature I doubt that this seminary (or any) would ever offer a similar degree for men. But if they were to offer a degree for men it would most likely not look like the above, but rather the following: Spiritual Leadership: Men Only. Back to JoAnna-isms